Congratulations to Drs. Renyu Liu (University of Pennsylvania) and Anthony Rudd (Kings College, London) and Jing Zhao (Fudan University), three core members of World Stroke Organization Taskforce for Prehospital Care (WSOTPC) for their awarding winning short documentary (My stroke Story: I want to tell you my big mistake). The short documentary is nominated as a potential award winning film by the World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 Health for All film festival from about 1000 submissions to the festival. It described a true story of a young scientist, Dr. Lei Wang, who courageously tells his stroke story and mistakes including ignoring his high blood pressure, and failing to recognize the possibility of stroke immediately and call the emergency medical system phone number (911 in the USA).
This short documentary received three major awards at the 2023 New York City TV festival: 1) The best documentary series; 2) Humanitarian award; 3) Rising Young Director award.
This is the second time that their film has been selected by WHO film festival. The last film was “Wakeup Stroke” in 2022.
If you wish to help to translate the short film to your local language to use the film as one of your educational materials, please feel free to contact Dr. Renyu Liu: RenYu.Liu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu. Dr. Liu will help to put the captions on the movie in YouTube and credit you for the caption translation.